Benjamin Robbins

ROBBINS, MACK, LEAVITT, PETITT, PEASE, HUNTER, NETTLETON

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/21/2004 at 22:32:06

Benjamin Robbins was born in Herkimer county, New York, November 13, 1817, and is a son of Jacob and Lois (Mack) Robbins. His father was born in the State of Connecticut, and his mother in Massachusetts. Benjamin remained in his native county until he had attained his majority. He obtained a thorough education in the common schools of that section, after which he entered Hamilton Institute, Hamilton, New York, where he studied for four years, and in that time finished the academic and began the theological course, but was unable to complete the latter on account of his failing health.
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In 1839 he came west and located on a farm, in Trumbull county, Ohio, in the western reserve. This occupation he followed until the second year of the rebellion, at which time he enlisted in Company D, Sixth Ohio Cavalry, as a commissary sergeant, and served until honorably discharged, in August of the year 1863. Upon returning to civil life, he came to Bremer county, Iowa, and settled on a farm of forty acres, in Washington township Here he remained until 1868, and then settled on section 10, of Shell Rock township, where he now owns a farm of 80 acres.
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In politics, Mr. Robbins belongs to the republican party, and is a member of the Christian Church. He was married, in 1842, to Sarah P. Leavitt, who died in 1852. Two children were born to them – Leavitt W., who is now living in Shell Rock township; and Lester C., who was killed at Atlanta, Georgia, September 4, 1868, while on picket duty, serving with the Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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Mr. Robbins was again married, in 1854, to Elizabeth Petitt. This union has been blessed with four children – Sarah, now the wife of Joseph Pease; Parintha A., now the wife of Robert Hunter; Frank W., and Burton B., who lives in Dakota. Frank W. was married, in November, 1881, to Nora Nettleton.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 703